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originally posted by: 0zzymand0s
a reply to: RMFX1
Not on mine. I'm seeing NASAs rep and the SpaceX engineer discuss the upcoming second burn in moderate technical detail. No politicians anywhere.
EDIT: apologies. I forgot we switched over to SpaceX's channel about 20 minutes before launch.
originally posted by: suicideeddie
well the nasa feeds been hijacked by trump going off topic, but the previous 6 hours watching was worth watching though..
But it won't be a satellite or an airplane - it will be a 1,100-foot-wide (340-meter-wide) near-Earth asteroid called 99942 Apophis that will cruise harmlessly by Earth, about 19,000 miles (31,000 kilometers) above the surface. That's within the distance that some of our spacecraft that orbit Earth.
It's rare for an asteroid of this size to pass by Earth so close.
When first discovered, the object received the provisional designation 2004 MN4, and early news and scientific articles naturally referred to it by that name. Once its orbit was sufficiently well calculated, it received the permanent number 99942 (on June 24, 2005).
Receiving a permanent number made it eligible for naming by its discoverers, and they chose the name "Apophis" on July 19, 2005.
[20] Apophis is the Greek name of Apep, an enemy of the Ancient Egyptian sun-god Ra. He is the Uncreator, an evil serpent that dwells in the eternal darkness of the Duat and tries to swallow Ra during his nightly passage. Apep is held at bay by Set, the Ancient Egyptian god of storms and the desert.
www.jpl.nasa.gov...
originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
originally posted by: suicideeddie
well the nasa feeds been hijacked by trump going off topic, but the previous 6 hours watching was worth watching though..
I can't fault him for pointing out that while people are making history, others are reverting back to mob mentality.
I thought it was quite on topic tbh.
originally posted by: suicideeddie
well the nasa feeds been hijacked by trump going off topic, but the previous 6 hours watching was worth watching though..